Everybody goes through their own journey, maybe? I dunno.

The famous study done by a general suggested that only 15% or so of American soldiers fired their weapons with lethal intent. I believe other militaries doing their own post-WWII after-action reviews came to similar conclusions. These statistics have since been called into question, but the fact remains that…

I wish these lists would confine themselves to pop music rather than doing the non-pop tokenism thing.

Yes, but the Mission Impossible people's goal is to make their movie look as best as it can, and having Cavill grow a mustache is better than working out a realistic prop. Justice League isn't their problem. I don't know the details for movies but I assume all this stuff is spelled out in contracts; in television…

IRONICALLY ME DECIDING TO NOT TRUST MY OWN IDEAS ANYMORE TURNS OUT TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME KIND OF BAD IDEA AS BEFORE.

I only have one Morrison-Batman trade (aside from Arkham Asylum itself) - that's the future one where all the highrises in Gotham are pre-booby trapped and the new "Batman" is fighting … the Devil?

Modern nerdery is about performative fandom of approved genre content. You're supposed to like it because it's got dragons and it's on your TV, not consider whether it's good or bad.

I agree that from a real world perspective Martin has not exhibited enough control of his story creep, but internally, I think the Iron Islands make sense, whether or not they suck.

Does the "different spirit" include "giving a shit about the internal logic of the fictional world"?

Never let it be forgotten: GoT filmed a rape scene by accident.

I was wondering about that, thanks. I don't know really anything about the social context of Mohammed's world in seventh century Arabia; while I know that Islam incorporates Christian influence and honors important Christian (and Jewish) historical figures, I didn't know whether Christianity was enough of a social…

I don't know how this will translate, if at all, into the alternate history they're developing, but one of the more persistent yet subtle (because it's less plot-focused) differences between GoT and ASOIAF is that they don't seem able to conceive of positive things for women to do that don't relate to violence. They…

I assume at this point that 25th Hour was a fluke for Benioff.

Would you settle for "by the mores of the time, hanging every former US Army officer who took up arms for the CSA would have been appropriate?"

Oh, is that what happened?

Well, there were a lot of semi-apocalyptic Jewish cults springing up and dying out around that time, so maybe another one would've taken hold instead.

The choices they made in adapting ASOIAF do not fill me with any hope that they will do a good job of pulling this off.

They would have gone home largely unsuccessful, as the historical record indicates they really struggled assaulting European style stone castles once they arrived in Hungary?

I disagree that his action scenes are usually pretty awesome? I think the shooting of the hand to hand in the two Batman movies I saw entirely is not good. My joke is that in Batman Begins the fight scenes being blurry and vague is part of that movie's theme, but in The Dark Knight it's just bad directing. I think the…

And I'm looking forward to it; Nolan could also just be getting better; but an aerial dogfight isn't a fistfight, and it's specifically the hand-to-hand and car chase stuff in TDK that I think is bad (confusing, quick-cuts and blur) - though not more inept than the typical 2000s American action movie.